Stocking Hair Loss Topical Solutions At Kmart

When this writer worked at Kmart back in the days of the dinosaurs, some exciting new products hit the shelves that seemed like products from science fiction rather than Madison Avenue. Some of these products – like Nicorette – we need to keep locked up at all times. But others, like hair loss topical solutions for men and women, seemed to only leave the store shelves under mysterious circumstances.

No Country For Old Men

I worked at that Kmart for seven years straightening, dusting and stocking shelves full of hair loss topical solutions. Rogaine was the most famous and best known of the products that we stocked. However, in all the years that I worked at that Kmart, I never once saw an old, bald man pick up a box and shuffle off to the cash registers. I never once saw an old man even stick a topical hair loss solution in his pocket and try to walk out of the store.

Since I had to stock any department that needed it in the entire store, I had more products to worry about than just hair loss topical solutions. I worked the graveyard shift, but many times we still had customers in the store well after dark. The hair loss topical solutions had to be selling, as there always seemed to be more to stick up on the suddenly empty shelves. I just assumed that people bought hair loss topical products before I came on shift.

I Assumed Wrong

It wasn't the old and already egg-bald gents who were looking for hair loss solutions for men – it was young men, even in their teens and twenties. But, of course, they wouldn’t be seen in public going into Kmart to pick up their hair loss topical solutions. They were paranoid enough about loosing their hair, getting old and whatever else hair loss meant to them.

No – they sent their girlfriends to buy their hair loss topical solutions for them. They sent their mothers, aunts and even their sisters. In all my years at Kmart, I never once saw a man pick up a box or bottle of hair loss topical solution. I have seen them glance over at the product, stare at it with their heads tilted. I've even seen them lean over towards it. But I've never seen a man actually BUY any of the stuff.

I asked my co-workers and they never have, either.